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Is Rio Rancho Estates, NM tap water safe?

Rio Rancho Water & Ww Services serves Rio Rancho Estates, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and New Mexico’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

Rio Rancho Water & Ww Services serves Rio Rancho Estates. In EPA’s and New Mexico’s records it has 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 467 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Rio Rancho Water & Ww Services’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Rio Rancho Estates

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab New Mexico certifies.

The 3 labs New Mexico certifies closest to Rio Rancho Estates, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • ABCWUA Water Quality Lab

    Albuquerque, NM · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria, lead and copper

    (505) 289-3499

  • Environmental Testing Services Co., Inc.

    Albuquerque, NM · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (505) 881-0243

  • Eurofins Environmental Testing South Central

    Albuquerque, NM · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS, radioactivity, asbestos

    (505) 345-3975

New Mexico Environment Department: Water fairs in New Mexico communities, where well owners bring in a quart of well water to be tested for arsenic, nitrate, fluoride, iron, sulfate, pH and conductivity, with results mailed in two to four weeks. Dates are on the department's calendar. Water Fairs, New Mexico Environment Department.

All 44 certified labs for New Mexico

ZIP codes in Rio Rancho Estates

Which ZIP codes are in Rio Rancho Estates: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: New Mexico Environment Department, Drinking Water Bureau, laboratories certified to analyze drinking water samples; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Rio Rancho Estates

Other towns in Sandoval County with a page of their own.

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